By Rebecca Hargus Photography by Doug Hodel A Look Inside A presidential presence on the Hardin-Simmons campus Turning from Ambler Avenue in to the main entrance of Hardin-Simmons University, a sweeping driveway shadowed by mature Texas mesquites welcomes visitors and students alike to the home of the HSU president and his wife, Dr. Lanny and Carol … [Read more...]
McMurry’s Old Main Attraction
Restoring a campus memory By Loretta Fulton Reprinted with permission from The Messenger Photography by Tim Nelson After graduating from McMurry in 1955, Jack Darnell spent the next 31 years seeing the world courtesy of the United States Navy. He sailed the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Mediterranean – just about every body of water large enough to float a Navy … [Read more...]
A Look Inside: Horace Wooten’s Hotel
By Jay Moore Adapted from a portion of "Abilene History In Plain Sight” published by ACU Press. As the Packard automobile dealer in San Angelo in 1930, Kenneth Cox arrived in Abilene on May 24 to handle some business. Cox happened to enter the Hotel Wooten lobby just ahead of Frank Hart from Plainview. Cox came into the lobby at 6 p.m., thus beating Hart by mere minutes in … [Read more...]
The Lingering Youth of an Old High School
By Jay Moore Adapted from a portion of "Abilene History In Plain Sight” published by ACU Press. Looming large at the southern terminus of Grape Street stands a memory, an epic Abilene memory. Occupying a city block is a buff-colored brick school which for many is the alma mater of their adolescence. The property along South First Street has been the site of an … [Read more...]